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Green, Red, Gold By William Radice Flambard Press William Radice's Green, Red, Gold is a novel in 101 sonnets that oscillates between page-turning realism and haunting poetic symbolism. Charting the genesis, acceleration, fragmentation and resolution of a love-affair with a power and spontaneity rare in the sonnet form, its constantly varying emotions and rhythms range from St Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels to the love of Abelard and Heloise; from Northumberland to London and back; from pantomime to prime numbers; from the trauma of adulterous passion to marriage and parenthood's accumulated love and experience. Woven into this story are precise symbolic threads: sea and land; forest and home; disguise and nakedness; Ariel and Cordelia; spirit (green) tangling with world (red) to achieve a balance of the two (gold). Connecting also with the wider dangers of basing moral and political decisions on spiritual promptings, the sequence arrives — with a momentum both intimate and symphonic — at the realisation that 'morality's a human matter', inseparable from reason and compassion.
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